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Monday Oct 15, 2007

The Weather
Research and Forecasting (WRF)
model is a computer program with a dual use for forecasting and
research. It is the latest numerical program model to be adopted by the
National Weather Service
as well as the U.S. military and private meteorological services.

The model features multiple dynamical cores, a 3-dimensional
variational (3DVAR) data
assimilation system, and a software architecture allowing for
computational parallelism and system extensibility. In other words, WRF
is an excellent candidate for tapping in the enormous compute power
provided by the Sun
Grid Compute Utility at Network.com.

Wednesday Sep 26, 2007

Derrick Harris of Grid Today is
writing a
two-part article on the origin of utility computing and how it has
evolved over the years. Sun's Network.com is positioned as grid
computing for the masses, but you'd get ample hints of what's
coming down the pike...

Wednesday Sep 19, 2007

SPICE does not need any
introduction in the Electronic Design
Automation industry. In over 30 years of its life, SPICE
has become the
de-facto standard for circuit simulation.

ngspice
is a mixed-level/mixed-signal circuit simulator. Its code is based on
three open source software packages: Spice3f5, Cider1b1 and Xspice.
Ngspice is part of gEDA project,
a full GPL'd suite of Electronic Design Automation tools.

Thursday Aug 02, 2007

For years
science research
labs and organizations have been
researching, simulating and recreating phenomenon’s occurring in our
world
for environmental discovery, medical research, the history of our
universe and
human life. This research commands high power computing ability to run,
analyze, and store such recreations and information.

Recently Sun Grid Compute
Utility, a computing
infrastructure that provides massive computational needs on an
on-demand basis, has been powering the
Brookhaven National Laboratory Solenoidal Tracker (STAR) project taking
place at the Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).
Brookhaven
National
Laboratory has recently ported STARSIM,
the mainstay simulation
application for
the STAR project, to the Solaris 10
OS to take advantage of the
computational power provided by Sun
Grid
Compute Utility (available from Sun Microsystems' Network.com)
and is approaching
the next frontiers
in their studies of the "perfect liquid" formed from nuclear matter
under extreme conditions. The pay-as-you-use model offered by Sun Grid
Compute Utility is helping move Brookhaven National
Laboratory’s simulation effort forward efficiently and without any
additional
infrastructure investment.

Wednesday Jul 25, 2007

In
today's competitive pharmaceutical marketplace, making a scientific
breakthrough and getting to market first is vital to maximize revenue
potential. Identifying quality lead compounds is an important but
time-consuming task along the path of drug discovery.
Constraints on
compute power can often impede progress. The innovative Electronic
High Throughput Screening (eHiTS) software from
SimBioSys running on
the powerful Sun Grid Compute Utility (offered by Sun's Network.com)
gives organizations a new way to accomplish fast, accurate docking of
ligands to target receptors by using a secure, affordable, and
scalable on-demand
compute utility resource.

eHiTS
offers new approaches to accurately score ligand and receptor
interactions as well as to account for all conformation and
protonation changes that occur during the binding process in the
molecular docking and screening steps of drug discovery. The
application fills the drug discovery pipeline faster by automating
searches of compound libraries, identifying lead candidates rapidly,
and reducing time to solve molecular docking challenges with the
scalable power of its innovative algorithms running on Sun Grid
Compute Utility.

Get the details about the eHiTS application offered via Network.com here.